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Post by **barry** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:09 am

AnotherBrian » Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:04 pm wrote:
barry » Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:02 pm wrote:Does anyone have a good easy way to see the results with each method (trend, rad, rad multi, etc)?

If there is currently no easy way to see how each method is doing, would the developers consider using a different magic no. for each method please?

Thanks for any help.

try this
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... =27&t=3893
you can filter by comment

So you can! I had never realized the significance of that line in the indicator settings before - many thanks AnotherBrian!

pcorneli · Post by **pcorneli** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:45 am

Question:

IF Bid is below zerolevel, lets say 199 AND Ask is above zerolevel, lets say 201;
THEN the routine -GetNext20()- generates a BuyStop at 200 (using the Bid)
AND generates the 130 error.

That will be prevented is Ask is used for BuyStop.

Is this correct?

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:06 am

pcorneli » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:45 am wrote:Question:

IF Bid is below zerolevel, lets say 199 AND Ask is above zerolevel, lets say 201;
THEN the routine -GetNext20()- generates a BuyStop at 200 (using the Bid)
AND generates the 130 error.

That will be prevented is Ask is used for BuyStop.

Is this correct?

Nope.

pcorneli · Post by **pcorneli** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:18 am

IMHO is creats a BUYSTOP 200 and then the Ask(201) > Price so error 130.

MonteCristo · Post by **MonteCristo** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:35 am

Forgive me if this questions have been answered before but I looked and i can't find any, so I am asking them now:

1) Do I have to do anything on the settings, for a 5 digit broker (like Alpari.uk) on HGB or on HGI?

2) I backtested the EA on Alpari.uk for EURUSD (4 hours, from1/1/2012 till now, spread 2) and the results were very dissapointing. Am I doing something wrong on the backtesting?

Thanks

Post by **milanese** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:37 am

MonteCristo » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:35 am wrote:Forgive me if this questions have been answered before but I looked and i can't find any, so I am asking them now:

1) Do I have to do anything on the settings, for a 5 digit broker (like Alpari.uk) on HGB or on HGI?

2) I backtested the EA on Alpari.uk for EURUSD (4 hours, from1/1/2012 till now, spread 2) and the results were very dissapointing. Am I doing something wrong on the backtesting?

Thanks

1) no
2) forget backtesting it is wasting time..

Cheers

Tommaso

MonteCristo · Post by **MonteCristo** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:55 am

milanese » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:37 am wrote:
MonteCristo » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:35 am wrote:Forgive me if this questions have been answered before but I looked and i can't find any, so I am asking them now:

1) Do I have to do anything on the settings, for a 5 digit broker (like Alpari.uk) on HGB or on HGI?

2) I backtested the EA on Alpari.uk for EURUSD (4 hours, from1/1/2012 till now, spread 2) and the results were very dissapointing. Am I doing something wrong on the backtesting?

Thanks
1) no
2) forget backtesting it is wasting time..

Cheers

Tommaso

Tommaso thanks a lot for the quick response! Here it's 2:51 am but I was still awake waiting for one

But why should I forget about backtesting? How can I test the HGB then? Only on demo or even live account? Is there a thread about it in order not to bother you with that kind of questions?

By the way, on HGB should I check the "Allow DLL imports" option? Because it's by default unchecked.

Thanks!

Post by **milanese** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:35 am

MonteCristo » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:55 am wrote:
Tommaso thanks a lot for the quick response! Here it's 2:51 am but I was still awake waiting for one

But why should I forget about backtesting? How can I test the HGB then? Only on demo or even live account? Is there a thread about it in order not to bother you with that kind of questions?

By the way, on HGB should I check the "Allow DLL imports" option? Because it's by default unchecked.

Thanks!

test it forward on demo this is the only way to see how it works and to understand the EA. For your second question you should generally check the allow dll imports.

Cheers

Tommaso

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:33 am

MonteCristo » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:55 am wrote:
Tommaso thanks a lot for the quick response! Here it's 2:51 am but I was still awake waiting for one

But why should I forget about backtesting? How can I test the HGB then? Only on demo or even live account? Is there a thread about it in order not to bother you with that kind of questions?

Thanks!

Be warned that you are getting away with discussing backtesting only because nothing polite is out of bounds in this thread. Bring it up in any of my main threads and I will savage you. Read this post http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 83#p108983 to find out why.

FXe3 · Post by **FXe3** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:48 pm

I have a question regarding MaxOverallTrades. My understanding is, if I set this to 5, and a RAD fires, creating 10 pending trades, these pending trades don't count against MaxOverallTrades until they actually enter. Lets say 5 enter, what happens to the remaining pending trades, are they deleted? I'm a little confused because they are sitting as pending.

I also have instant Trend enabled and it fires after the RAD post 10 pending, one of the RAD enters, leaving 9 pending, and a Trend Arrow appears. Would this prevent my Instant Trend from entering, I don't think it would. Trying to figure out why Trend instant is not entering.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.